MacDaddy Fishing Light’s patented research has proven you need multiple tools, education, and the ability to customize your light set in the water. Fishing at night has a delicate ecosystem, requiring the angler to be light-responsible, especially if chasing light-sensitive species. Marine life thrives in unlit water, and blindly introducing light into the environment can silently sabotage your success.
An LED fishing light source with a cord is only a partial solution in a sport that demands options. Past fishing lights oversimplified the sport, blocking the angler from deploying any light strategy.
Fishing lights have evolved very little in the last 70 years. What changed was the type of light source (incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, and now LED). .
Shrimping was one of the most frustrating sports in Florida’s tidal waters.
The introduction of LEDs in 2009 in homemade fishing lights allowed Capt Lee Noga to play with the light buoyancy and study the response of shrimp to several different light presentations & studies.
Over the years, thousands of anglers have scrutinized her studies, and now they are considered the gold standard for this night fishing.
The fishing light retail market in 2025 has stayed unchanged for 50+ years. For decades, retailers have continued to manufacture and/or sell a “lamp source on a cord.”
For years, anglers had to adapt to the limitations of their low-tech lights. We took the mistakes made by the fishing light industry for 50+ years and added in years of research on how to manipulate marine life, bringing the sport of night fishing into the 21st century.
This is our story.
The MacDaddy fishing lights were granted 6 design patents and 1 pending. The MacDaddy smart light® series fishing light was awarded the highest patent in the USA in 2021 (utility patent). Our innovations ushered in a new generation of science-based fishing lights. We gave the control back to the angler.
We have proved you need more than a lamp and a cord. You need a plan to have control over the depth and location of the light and strategic deployment strategies as a tool for target manipulation. The angler now has a wide range of strategic decision opportunities that will have a great influence on their outcome. Anglers are now free from the limitations built into over-simplified fishing lights that remain in the marketplace.
In 2016, The shrimping industry got behind her and invested in the products. In addition, the industry became her feedback loop, which continues to evolve the lights today. A movement formed behind these groundbreaking fishing lights. This movement was built on change, who now believe science plays a big a role in their fishing success.
Capt Lee Noga developed seminars, training videos, booklets, and forums to make education a fundamental cornerstone to the MacDaddy Fishing Light’s™ success.
